Today, the Judicial Council of the Special Court sentenced the former head of the State Security Radomir Marković and the former head of the Belgrade DB center Milan Radonjić to 30 years in prison each for the murder of journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, while the other two defendants received 20 years in prison each.
DB operatives Ratko Romić and Miroslav Kurak, who is on the run, received 20 years in prison each.
Explaining the verdict, judge Snežena Jovanović said that the court panel decided by majority vote that the defendants were guilty of premeditatedly killing the owner of the newspapers Dnevni telegraf and Evropljanin, Belgrade journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, on April 11, 1999, on the order of an unknown person.
According to the prosecution, Ćuruvija was killed with the desire to limit media freedom and preserve power and authority, whose representatives Ćuruvija publicly criticized.
The sentencing was attended by Marković, Radonjić and Romić, while Kurak is on the run and cannot be reached by the judicial authorities of Serbia.
During the bringing to the Special Court of the former head of the RDB, Radomir Marković, who is serving a prison sentence for other crimes, part of Ustanička Street was blocked, and the entire area was secured by a large number of policemen.
The verdict was delivered by the general director of RTS and former editor-in-chief Dragan Bujošević of Evropljanin magazine, a paper owned by Slavko Ćuruvija, as well as journalists Vukašin Obradović, Milan Ćulibrk, Nenad Stefanović, Radomir Diklić and others.
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